Savannah Youth Development Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851297570
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Savannah, GA, USA
- Phone
- 9124465885
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $458,877
- Expenses
- $275,895
- Assets
- $412,198
- Liabilities
- $8,683
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Parker (CEO)
- Bryan Schivera (President)
- Michael Johnson (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- John Parker (CEO): $79,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization operates the first tee program to enable savannah-area youth to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. By seamlessly integrating the game of golf with life skills curriculum, they create learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that they will carry to everything they do.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 we: served 44 total schools in Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, and Liberty County serving 25,905 students through physical education classes, after school programs, or clubs. Our on course programs served 524 children at 14 golf courses in Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, and Liberty County. We worked with participants from Park Place Outreach, Tharros Place, The City of Savannah's Community Centers, The LB3 Foundation, The Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, The Matthew Reardon Center for Autism, and The Savannah Sigmas to provide programming to 514 children experiencing various forms of difficulty in their lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 58.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.